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Leabaidh Nighean Rìgh Lochlainn

Information:“On the right hand side from the entrance [of An Uamh Mhòr] is what is known as the bed of the daughter of the King of Lochlin...Tradition says that she eloped with a youth whom her royal father deemed ineligible as her spouse.” - Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair, p101.

A short distance from the Great Cave is Leabaidh Nighean Rìgh Lochlainn. It is a rock shelf shaped like a couch...oral sources say that she eloped to Tiree with a lover deemed unworthy of her by her father - Bailtean is Ath-Ghairmean, Niall M Brownlie, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p78-80.